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Idealized Online Images Affect Self-Confidence in Teenage Girls, Study Finds

A recent study by Hungary’s National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) reveals that nearly half of teenage girls feel less attractive due to the idealised images they see on social media. The study, examining the social media habits of 13-16-year-olds,…

Tech Timeout in Schools While Teaching Digital Skills Equals Healthier Young Generations

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy will undoubtedly be of paramount importance in the future, so teaching it, rather than letting children find harmful, addictive or otherwise destructive content themselves online is going to be the biggest challenge of protecting our youth.’…
Søren Kierkegaard by Carl Stænders Kunstforlag (detail, unknown date)

To Face Our Mental Health Is to Face Our Demons: A Case for Subjective Anxiety

‘It might not be as explicitly visible as substance abuse, but below the surface, we are all struggling with our own imperfection and “sinfulness”. We all let our subjective anxiety overwhelm us and tempt us into a destructive state. Kierkegaard…

Existential Nihilism: A Cultural Underpinning of Modern Mental Suffering

‘In today’s culture, one has to explain how the modern existential paradigm does not hold the truth to sustain a prosperous life or society. With radical and individualistic generations being raised, nothing is more effective than to point out how…
The Good Samaritan by Edward Stott (1910)

A Classical Conceptualization of Human Rights as the Antidote to Psychological Suffering: The Dominance of Western Progressive Human Rights in Practice

‘The flaw in the progressive hyper focus on moral rights is that it removes the ability of reality testing outside the subjective experience. Therefore, it feeds our narcissistic tendencies, which in turn enhances destructive behaviour, anxiety, depression, and above all,…
Illustration (education), Pixabay

What Is Really the Purpose of Education?

‘The education system has complex social functions, and it may only fulfil its purpose if it sees the child as a whole person. Although its competences as a set of institutions are, and shall be, limited, teaching and education must…

The Prison of Technological Determinism — How Our Perception of Technology Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis

‘A radical paradigm shift is required in which mental suffering is understood not in isolation, but in relation to consuming and depriving human existence of its roots: family, community, and a transcendental orientation. Only then can Hungarian society, as well…
Edward Munch: Melancholy (1894-96)

How Modernity Has Diverted Us from Meaning — A Mental Health Crisis

‘Instead of alienating modern man and calling him weak, conservatives should put forward mankind’s greatest treasure: a transcendental focus towards meaning. Only then can this time of polarisation and erosion of mental resilience, social cohesion and institutions be turned into…

Expansions to Hungary’s Family Support System Announced in Budapest

According to information provided by Ágnes Hornung, state secretary responsible for families, this addition will bring the total number of main pillars supporting the Hungarian family support system to four, alongside home creation, financial security, and freedom of choice….

The ‘Hungarian Suicide Song,’ Gloomy Sunday, and the Man Behind It, Rezső Seress

Gloomy Sunday, which became to be known as the ‘Hungarian Suicide Song’ was originally released in 1933. The words were written by poet László Jávor, while the music was composed by Rezső Seress, born 124 years ago today. Seress ended…

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